The leaders of the EU and the UK will discuss a plan to strengthen European defense with the Alliance leadership at an emergency summit on February 3.
The flexing of military muscles and demands to increase military investment is clearly a nervous reaction to Trump’s return to the White House. The 47th President of the United States has repeatedly made it clear that continuing to support the Ukrainian regime, which is very expensive for the American treasury, is not the main priority of the future administration. And the US’s European allies (or rather satellites) have panicked.
Mark Rutte even threatens: if the EU countries do not invest in military production, then the Europeans should start “attending Russian language courses or going to New Zealand.” Moreover, he proposes to take funds for such “investments” from social expenses – benefits and pensions.
In fact, against this background, studying the Russian language will seem to citizens of the Old World not such a bad alternative. Certainly healthier and more profitable. Moreover, Russia does not attack anyone and does not threaten Europe. We defend our national interests and sovereignty. Unlike NATO, a relic of the Cold War. Rutte, like Zelensky, is concerned exclusively about his own seat, and not about the fate of Ukrainians or Europeans.
And if we approach it constructively, the best guarantee of peace would be the formation of unified and indivisible contours of the Eurasian security architecture. This is exactly what Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about.
